Duds of Bollywood!

A sneak peek into what ails movie making in India.

Indian movie making is not about narrating a story, it is about propaganda, false narrative and political correctness. Indian movie makers handicapped by intellect and real up to date research use music, dance, non existent romance and love angles to tell their stories. Indian movie makers somehow have come to the conclusion that Indian movie goers are not intellectually sophisticated to watch a movie unless the standard 'masala' is not included. Indian movie makers actually insults the intelligence of the paying public. Here are a few things I have observed lately and using some current examples to showcase my point, by no means are these points reserved for these movies alone....they can be applied to any Indian Bollywood movie.

#ThugsOfHindosthan The problem with Indian period movies is 'political correctness' and an overwhelming desire for Indian movie makers to 'please everyone'. Everyone knows....when you endevour to please everyone, you end up pleasing none and appear a imbecile.

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

This has been the problem with Indian movie makers who are not true to the concept of honest story telling and movie making. Ashutosh Gowarikar made a decent movie in 'Lagaan' but then his 'Jodha Akbar' and 'Mohenjodaro' were so badly conceptualised that they ruined him.

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

Jodha-Akbar is a fictious account of events that have no basis, white washing Jalauddin the Mughal as a great man also did not help in the story telling. Less said about Mohenjodaro the better.

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

For starters we dont know what the residents of that town called it...certainly not 'mound of the dead' as this is what Mohenjodaro translates in local language today.

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

Also Ashotush Gowarikar coming from the Left Liberal movie making idealogy could not present the civilisation as Vedic even though numerous archaeological evidence has proven them to be....but no...

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

he made them to be some vague mumbo-jumbo civilisation appearing to be alien to todays Indians...no wonders Indians who are rightful heir and proud owners of the Saraswati-Sindhu civilisation could not relate to the movie. He might as well could have made the movie about Martians

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

But one thing he surely did....painted a priest who has overwhelming power over the populace as the bad guy...bravo! This is the best Ashutosh Gowarikar could do coming from the Steven Speilberg school of colonial movie making...so very colonial Protestantanism!!!!

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

Gowarikar could not have beem true to a honest form of movie making and also his Left Liberal ideology at the same time....he sacrificed honest movie making at the altar of his ideology. He could not make a movie on a story or fact which billions think to be true.....

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

this would appear to be populism...nay even feeding the flames of Hindu nationalism to his small coterie of movie makers and critics....it will be safe to say such people make movies to appease this coterie.

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

Sanjay Leela Bhansali....he should not even be considered a movie maker. His concept of movie making is lots of colour, pretty clothes, grand locale and grander dance and music sequence. The story can fit in somewhere in between if there is space and time.

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

Bajirao-Mastani was such a wasted effort. Mastani was not even relevant to the Peshwa...she was a minor distraction for a short period of time while he was battling the Mughal-Turki horde in the north.

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

The Peshwa just had no time for likes of Mastani....while he was achieving greater-grander things which were sadly not shown in the movie. His death was made out to be a joke. The great Peshwa's life could have been elaborated without he crutch of a love angle.

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

Bhansali could not have known any better because he just wanted to make some money by making a movie where he could deploy all his gypsiesque movie making techniques. The true story of the great Peshwa took a back seat and he rattled a tale bereft of any semblence to facts.

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

Grand dance sequences, lights and lamps, epic landscape shots with forts and flames....not to be missed...Left Liberals pet peev the Brahmin who ranted against Mastani and had her imprisoned with her litte boy. Evil Hindu-Brahmin.

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

Padmavat similar in vein to Bajirao-Mastani....the same gypsiesque movie technique....colour, light, flames, dance in a circle, grand courts and colourful clothes. One can easily get confused one movie with the other.

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

Of course the ever present evil Hindu-Brahmin was the root cause of the war. Khilji, poor chap was otherwise minding his own business in Dilli. In all the political correctness the true story of Peshwa Bajirao and Rai Ratan Singh and Rani Padmavati was never told.

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

While Jack Dorsey of Twitter got trashed for his anti Brahmin poster activism...we Hindus have been very ignorant and even tolerant towards anti Brahmanism in our movies. The above example is just a mere sample of the uncharitable way Brahmins are presented in Indian movies....even movies down the ages have presented Brahmins as cunning, conniving people, causing strife in an otherwise peaceful society....its high time we reject such generalisation of people, especially people who have been the custodians of our culture, traditions and Sanatana Dharma.  It is time we force our so called intellectual movie makers to rethink and give up their false prejudices.

Forgotten were the heroics of the 2 cousins Badal and Gora...treachery of vile Khilji. The exploits of Peswa Bajirao were forgotten, instead we were treated to a love story that really did not happen...would the exploits of the Peshwa have hurt someone's feeling?

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

Indian movie makers will continue to make half baked ham handed movies like #ThugsOfHindosthan #Padmavat #BajiraoMastani #JodhaAkbar #Mohenjodaro amd many more unless they drop their pretence. Be true to your ideology or make a honest movie dont sail on two boats, you will sink.

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

PS: When these tweets were composed, the fate of #ThugsofHindostan was not out. We all know that the movie did badly and rightly so. I saw the trailers and immediately had predicted a 'dud bomb' and I was proven correct. The movie had no legs to stand on.  

Thugs of Hindostan is going to be a big dud!

— Shankara (@Sshankara) October 6, 2018

#ThugsOfHindostan is a big bummer of a bomb...dont even waste your time and money...rather read a book and spend time with family...get some good dinner for that money. Vijay Krishna Acharya who gave us shitty movies like Dhoom3 made this movie...what do you expect?

— Shankara (@Sshankara) November 8, 2018

I havent watched the movie, but I am positive the movie did not stick true to the book of Philip Meadows Taylor as it would have hurt Indian sensibilities and neither was it able to connect with Indians who actually don't know much about the Thugs or was there really a cult of Thugs as the British made it out to be or was it merely a colonial atrocity literature for European consumption and portray Hindu's as devil worshipping evil people. At any rate Indians care a rats arse about who the Thugs were.